The interview process was conducted from Berlin and lasted for more than two months. While the interviewers were professional, my experience in general was terrible. The job description mentioned that the position required strong skills in area X. As an expert in X I applied for the job. However, I eventually learnt that team was very small (hiring manager + another person) and their focus recently shifted to Y and the interviews also focused on judging my knowledge in topic Y. I got rejected and their feedback was "I don't know topic Y". Sure, but I didn't claim in my cv that I know that topic :) If their priorities had changed then why shortlist my profile and waste my time? The job description was clearly misleading. Interviews 1) Resume walk-through with a team member. 2) Behavioural questions with HR. 3) Hiring manager round. 4) Bar raiser round (behavioural questions + problem solving in business scenarios). 5) Coding task + s/w engineering principles. 6) In depth technical interview on skill-sets relevant to the profile. The HR told me that I didn't do well in the in-depth interview. Well, the interview wasn't conducted, it was cancelled :) They based their decision only on 5 rounds. It seems the hiring manager didn't know what he was doing. This was a huge waste of time. But now at least I know that Zalando weren't working in topic X and didn't have much to offer me.

I applied via Zalando's webpage. After a couple of days I got an invitation for the first screen. The whole process was: 1: First screen with recruiter 2: (offline) Assessment 3: final tech interview The final round was really tiresome since it was sub-divided into three interviews: ML interview, online coding (LeetCode), and the last one focused on system design.